I was thinking about this for awhile, and was wondering if anyone else felt that people are hesitant to award Premier League players with the credit they deserve?
Eg. Am I crazy or was Haaland not winning the Ballon D’or really disrespectful towards the Premier League?
He set the goals record, and won the treble.
You Look over the list of winners and in the premier league era only Michael Owen and Ronaldo have ever won it while playing for a premier league team.
How did Henry not win it in 2003?
I feel like now that he is dominating a much poorer league Harry Kane is finally getting the respect he deserves.
Jude Bellingham is getting bonus credit for doing it for Real Madrid.
It isn’t purposely biased against the prem but the fact that there’s so many tough games in the prem means an epl striker would struggle to put up ballon d’or numbers. Which makes haaland even more deserving. He’s just unlucky Messi won the World Cup tbh. Messi might not deserve but at the end of the day it’s 75% popularity contest and 25% performance